In 2012, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton convened a globally focused meeting and celebrated the creation of a first-ever Center of Excellence on Countering Violent Extremism, which is headquartered in the United Arab Emirates.
Thirty member nations at the time convened a Global Counterterrorism Forum to discuss how the CVE center in Abu Dhabi would conduct training and foster dialogue and research to give a persistent problem attention that was, at the time, described as “timely.”